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contributed to the Tribune Zledisale he shooting him through both hands. Mr. CELESTIALS IX CALIFGltm. describes, anions: other cases, one oi m- nite, misuuuersianaing tne purpose .1 ha or which he was shot, endeavored to which resisted antiphlogistic and emol in a horrible medley, the stairs in the rear of the room, entered the temple, or house dedicated to the worship of Joss. Chinese inscriptions on boards hung around the wall.

The floor was bare, and several small tables set carelessly around. At one of these stands two men were drinking tea out of cups the size of walnuts. TIipv 31. ALIISOX, Publisher. 7DvFIELDj KANSAS make his escape, when additional pistol shots were fired before the young man perceived his mistake.

Odds and End. -It was a very little boy in New Jersey who said "Yes, soda water's good; it's like your foot's asleep." Wednesday, according to the al lient treatment, and yielded quietly to the influence of electricity. The well known junceu3, has been lately utilized, in Southern Europe, in the manufacture of textile fabrics. Its fibre is said to be capable of indefinite subdivision, and hence suitable for the finest cloths it and nine years of age. They are the most comical looking little nurses that a child ever had.

They wear the whitest stockings and neat slippers, trousers, aud gowns of light blue cotton. Their hair is only eight or ten inches long, but there is red silk thread fastened to it and braided into long pig tails that reach to their heels. Their heads are covered with red silk caps. These quaint almond-eyed, red-braided little men wheel the carriage along carefully over the graveled walks, and stop under a shade tree and gather grass and flowers for the little maiden in their care. The younger boy's brown hand offers the blossoms, which are seized by the chanted first one, then the other, then in unison their faces were solemn, and they were surrounded by a silent throng of Chinese, but we could get no idea what they were trying to do.

After An Interesting: Picture of TAX Inside Chinese Homes Bis; Feet and Little et Howthey n'ihand Iron Kcoa-omjr of Space A Chinese Holiday. From the Courier-Journal. Santa Barbara, May 18, 1S76. I will take back every word I ever said about not believing that any Chinese women have feet only three inches long. The great big-footed Chinese women who tramp bareheaded through the streets of California have, as a usual thing, the ugliest, flat-soled, big- ankled pedal extremities I ever saw.

Their slippers are generally about half as big as their feet, leaving the heel and half the sole of the foot projecting over their sandals. The other day I heard that a Chinese lady of rank had lately come with her husband on a manacs, was the longest day in the year, retains heat, and may, therefore, sup- ply the place of wool it is a good ab- but almanacs don't always tell the truth, sorbent, and takes the most delicate The longest day we've known this year dyes with the same facility as do animal was the day when we lent a fellow 10 one verse of their strange, whining feline song, they each took a tiny sip of tea, and then struck up a wail again. After a half-hour of this amusement, another Chinese took down from a nail just for 24 hours, and the sun hasn't set textile materials it successfully resists dimpled white fist of the baby, who tears the pink petals apart and throws them out of her reach. For fully an hour the little group stays under the on that day yet. N.

T. Commercial. The lady officers of the Missouri Grange fell out about a handsome young Granger recently and their disagreement culminated in a passage at finger nails, in which Flora was Ceresly the action of acids and of salt water, without undergoing any change or losing its tenacity, as has been satisfactorily proved by its immersion for a whole month in diluted sulphuric acid; its strength is also found to be one-third on the wall a kind of banjo, and twanged the strings ia accompaniment. This Chinese fiddle was inlaid with visit to Santa Barbara, and her fe'et tree, The smaller boy seems the fa- were only two inches and three-quar- iTOry and pearl, and the box or body of vorite with the little lady he lays his the instrument was covered with snake head at her feet, and she kicks him greater than that of hemp, and it is 13 Pomonaled by the sroddess who re cent, lighter so that, with 15 per sides over the fruit department. Hatch- skin, anaconda skin, glittering, metal-ii i i per cent, less of raw less of raw material a rope may eve iic-iooKing, coverea with little scales that look like fine inlaid work.

ters long, juating inquiries of our laundry boy, Ah Foy, as to where the Chinese lady with little feet could be seen, he told me her husband was a cousin of Sing Lee, proprietor of a wash-house in town and she was stay- ii i be obtained, the relative strength of New Jersey editor 4ost his best A LAMP THAT HOLDS OUT TO BURN. davs ago. wmcu, coinpareu wiui uue ui nemy, ia gold pen and holder a few as of three to two The altar of the Joss was curtained After makinsr a thorough search all ing there. So accompanied by several and draped in crimson, and many glit over the office and accusing a dozen tramps with its theft he happened to ladies and gentlemen I entered the room, where a dozen heathen, Foreign XVotea. It is insisted in well informed in Great Britain that a matrimonial clothed in white drawers and white with her little blue shoes she pulls his long, red silk cue, and opens his closed eyes with her soft, baby fingers.

To all of these attentions the boy only answers with a childish laugh, and catches her hands and kisses them, and at last gets bis arms clear around the blue silk bonnet, and kisses the baby. An elegantly dressed lady come3 in search of them, and instead of reproving the hireling only laughs at him, and pulls the bonnet around straight on the pretty curls and fastens the baby's costly lace bib by a gold pin. The older boy wheels the carriage alon the sidewalk toward the beach, and the younger boy catches the lady's finger remember where he placed it, and bending down the top of his ear, discovered no less thau fourteen penholders of va- ITEMS OF INTEREST- Peraoual and Literary. Ilarriet Martineau, the English authoress, is dead. Lieutenant Cameron, the African-explorer, didn't see a newspaper in three years.

The Spanish Republican orator Emilio Castelar is expected to visit the Centennial Exhibition this summer. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has "been engaged by a Boston lecture bureau to lecture eighty nights during the coming season for 40,000. Pierrepont Edwards, British Consul at New York, is a match for Edwards Pierrepont, American Minister at St James, so far as names are concermed Mrs. Louise Pomeroy, wife of Brick" Pomeroy played Juliet at Trenton, N.J.

It is said that she contemplates regularly entering upon the dramatic profession. Dr. W. II. Russell, the correspondent of the London Times, is writing, for publication in book-form, an account of the Prince of Wales's tour in India, and of hi3 visit to the Courts of Athens, Cairo, Madrid, Lisbon, etc.

Sidney Hall, the special artist who accompanied the Prince, will illustrate Dr. Russell's work. Miss Dickinson closed her dramatic tour of New England at Portland, on Saturday evening. She will spend the summer in studying and reconstructing her play, "A Crown of Thorns," preparatory to her appearance in New York next season. She has also in prospect several new plays, and designs making a tour of the States, beginning early in the autumn.

"Gail Hamilton" i3 not, as one might imagine, a dried-up specimen of the genus old maid (to be sure she must be crowding fast toward the halfway post), but her appearance is that of a jolly, plump and bouncing blonde gowns, were putting the gloss on stiff alliance has been contracted between lmen. Un the table by each ironer his Koval Highness Prince Arthur, Duke riou3 styles which he had lost during: tering gut spangies ana ornaments were hanging about. Just under the picture of their idol there is a -little crystal hanging lamp filled with the oil of the cocoanut, in which the thread-like wick is curled. This lamp nevr is allowed to go out day or night. Below the lamp, on a table, is spread rice, wine, candy, and fruit for the god.

A Chinese told us while we were in the Joss house that there was a yellow basin filled with of Connaught, and the Princess Frederi- the past two years. KorrUtown Herald. water, and after the garment to be smoothed is spread out, rough-dried on the table, the Chinaman, suddenly ka, daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. The royal striped Ichthyopthal- Prince Arthur is now in Ins twenty- mjte, on exhibition in the Agricultural seventh year, having been born May 1, Building at the Centennial, was severely 1850. bitten bv the wild Psittacoglossum of President MacMahon has pardoned Borneo yesterday, and in endeavoring or reduced the sentences of eighty-seven to separate them the keeper struck the they had just got a new Joss from ducking his head over the bowl, sucked up a mouthful of water, which he spirted in a fine spray through his closed teeth over the clothes.

The China, and they were having feast day and talks to her in broken English, and 1 I I I 3 into the il men runs aneaa ana peeps participants in me communist msur- gray-nosed Angiomonospermous on the which brings wagon, calling 'boo," noise made by a dozen men spurting oecause mey nau tne new Joss. I asked what good the Joss did. "Why," said my heathen, "Melican go to churchee. head with an iron bar, instantly killing from- within the chuckling water that way resembles the hum carriage laughter, and a glimpse of fluttering of sewinsr machines. Immediately af it.

The Acanthopterygious has been sold, because it is so difficult for the rnm Isci'nnora tn Vhfnin tlift TTviirv. ter the mouthful of water has been dis- singee, prayee, talkee to big Joss up in skyee. China boy go to Joss house, singee and prayee to old Joss in a hands and yellow curls, as the little one twists herself around to find her hidden servant. The children are evi- the iron is run over the tracheliums which constitutes its only charged, dampened place until it is perfectly house. Melican man want to be goodee, prayee to Joss China boy want to be dently privileged favorites with the dry then another spot is moistened in food.

Hawkeye. When a young married woman thinks that she detects evidences of the rection. There will be no other further prosecutions, except in cases of involved attempts upon life or liberty, or in case of insurgent leaders, and such cases will be referred to a council of Ministers before prosecution. "Speak Up!" is becoming as familiar a cry in the British House of Commons as "Divide!" During the midnight and early morning scenes Speak Up" has become quite a joke. Whenever some member is bawling out at the top of a stentorian voice, in the hope of roaring down opposition, he is the same way.

Sing courteously conducted us waning of her husband's affections, let through the dark wash-house, where goodee, go to Joss house, all a same lady, for she stops and points out the Christain." peculiar mountain peaks and flowery There is in Santa Barbara about one foothills, and they listen with bright dozen Christian Chinamen, belonging faces to her explanation. The group to the Presbyterian Church. They have gradually pass out of my sight down their regular corner at the left side of the street. her not go into a slow decline until she men were beating clothes with bamboo has first examined his clothes to see if sticks, scrubbing them in the suds with bamboo brushes, and a China boy was missing buttons are not at the bottom of his discontent. Enough coldness has cooking dinner in a big pot over a little the pulpit.

It is a study to me. as I sit sprung up over places where buttons furnace, to a range of berths like those in a pew mid-way the center aisle, amid Deacon Mar Tin, of Lyme. ought to be to freeze out all the couju- the rustling silks and rattling fans of of ocean steamers, and, lifting the cur- assailed at every momentary pause with the cry of "Speak Up!" followed by shrieks of laughter. During one of of the Lydia Thompson make-up. As every body must know, Gail's" real name is Abigail Dodge, and her home to the tains of the bed, introduced us the fashionable audience, to see one by gal love in the universe.

Scold your husband if he needs it, reproach and One of the early settlers of Lyme was lady by saying: "This is my cousin these recent scenes the old-fashioned one these twelve men walk quietly down Reynold Marvin. He was a rich land- The woman immediately rose from the holder, a militia captain, and a deacon upbraid him, button no condition neglect his clothes, as thou lovest him. Brunswick News. the side aisle, and, dressed in their strange garb, crowns shaven and cues bed on which she was sitting, and ex cock crow, disused since Tittlebat Titmouse ceased to be a member of Parliament, again announced its shrill hanging to their heels, take their seats I tended her hand to us, saying, How and listen so intently, so breathlessly. do." Her husband was sitting by her Dom Pedro in a New Role, of the church.

Ho professed to bo governed by Divine communications. On one occasion he announced that tho Lord had directed him to distribute his cows among the poor. A shiftless fellow who was omitted in the distribu it seems, to the words of their beloved side, holding a boy a year old. He was very pleased at our visit, and proud of pastor. I notice when the contribution I There came an energetic ring at the box goes round John's silver makes the notice took of his boy, who was is at Hamilton, though she is at present sojourning in the National Capital, writing letters and cracking jokes upon widower Congressmen.

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, the distinguished physician of New York, says Jennie June, is a small, brown-haired, gray-eyed woman, active in movement, but quiet and reserved in manner, and with nothing in her appearance to indicate the singular strength and vigor of her intellect and character. She has conquered, with wonderful patience, perseverance and courage, the obstacles often a louder chink as it drops in the tion finally went to the Deacon and said already dressed in trousers and gown, and wore a red silk turban-cap on his door-bell the other morning, and we descended the stairs and grappled the door-knob. A middle-aged man, with sinister countenance and ginister breath, plate than the dime of the millionaire, he, too, had received a communication was more elegantly and I suspect when the rich man head. The wife presence.

There are various indications that the visit of the Prince of Wales to India may institute some important reforms in that country. The old restrictions placed upon women in India were relaxed so much that they can hardly be so severe hereafter. For the first time the women were liberated from the hard walls of the zenana, and were seen in open carriages, unvailed, enjoying with rapture the fire-works and other festivities. Thev were given dressed than any Chmese I had yet stood before us. seen.

Her hair was elaborately dressed, nve cents the laundry boy or cook gives one dollar. AN ENTERPRISING CHIN ASIAN. I am Dom Pedro, Emperor of Bra zil," he said. and fastened up in puffs and coils by long dagger-shaped pins of gold. Her from the Lord, who had sent him there for a cow.

Of course, then, you must have a cow," was the reply. But what sort of a cow did the Lord say I must give you a new milch-cow or a farrow?" A new milch-cow, sir." Indeed! Your commuuication could not have been from the Lord, for I "Ah!" we replied, "how's the Em press r1 gown, or robe, was loose, extended to the knee, and had big loose sleeves, dis Ah Quin is one of the most astute and successful business men of the city. He runs an extensive laundry, a Chinese intelligence office, a Chinese JSever mmd the -hmoress." he re- to thorough medical scholarship, and has won a place acknowledged equal by the highest representatives of medical skill and science in the country. Sur-freon-General Hammond remarked of a tended by hoops. Her robe was of dark to understand that this unprecedented joined; "just give your undivided at- 1 A 1 1 A 1 ireeuom was granieu at me express ue- tention to the Emperor for a few min sire oi the Prince, and he will always utes.

You see, since leaving Brazil blue silk, embroidered with yellow and red silk her arms had several bracelet ornaments her hands were small and well formed, and covered with rings; store containing tea, silk, and Chinese toys, and owns a line of garbage wagons, and vegetable gardens, from which men carry baskets on long poles, I've become a little short up for means, thesis of Dr. Putnam Jacobi upon the be regarded by them as their liberator, blood, that not three men iSew lork It ig lso atate that the PririCe rebuked have no new much-cow." The ballled beggar departed. Another time the Deacon oiposed some church measure, which was carried in spite of him. He promptly re and am making an effort to raise the could have written it. she wore big hoops of gold in her ears the insolence of certain Englishmen wind, as the Americans say.

I am sell swung over their shoulders, containing she had a pretty face, oval-shaped jES; toward natives in such a way as has pro- ing the Centennial spelling-book. I met duced an excellent effect. School and. Church. The Reformed Episcopalians a party down town who said you were are cheeks.

She smiled frequently as we an editor, and needed a spelling-book the year round, bringing them to your very door, and not alone to your door, but through every room in your house, until they are told to leave. Ah Quin is not satisfied with the extent and va badly, and conversed with Sing Lee, but took no part in the conversation. I think she "What else did he tell you?" we in only could speak a very few sentences. terrupted. When I said, we wanted to see her foot, riety of his enterprises, but he is now a fused to pay his church taxes, and was sued, and his saddle taken for the debt.

He esteemed himself deeply wronged, and rode upon a sheepskin (wheeled vehicles had as yet hardly appeared in the colonies) forever afterward. And riding upon his sheepskin one day, he reined his horse up to the cottage door of pretty Betty Lee. It was an old Dutch door, cut into in the middle. She came and leaned upon the lower half, her blue eyes opened wide, and Paul has invaded Paris, and the impressions he gets of men and things are altogether pleasing. The Frenchman, he tells us, is not a big feeder.

He breaks his fast in the morning with a little coffee and a good deal of bread and butter. Along towards nooD, if ravenously hungry, he seizes on a radish, or perhaps the hind legs of a sparrow; but for dinner ye gods, "He said you had a wife who was or-thographically shaky, and eleven chil she evidently understood, or shelaugh- and sudent'in a pnotograph and out her moving for a University. Eleven young ladies have been made Bachelors of Arts at Elmira, N. Y. The friends of the late Prof.

Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin (O.) University, intend to endow a new professorship of doctrinal theology there, which is to bear his name. Right Ilcv. Geo. N.

Cummins, sen ed, put tiny, pointed slip dren who should each have one oi my pers. I got on my knee, and took her foot in my lap and examined it closely, books by all means." Any thing else gallery. Ah Quin says there are no native photographers in China, and he intends to go back and set up a large establishment in Hong Kong, and "make muche money." and measured it. Well, yes. Me said that you wore old clothes and pretended to be poor, POOR FEET FOR WALKING.

The foot and leg were bound tightly her dainty hands holding fast to a plate wnat a gorging is tnerei jl wo spoonfuls of soup, the backbone of a smelt, a morsel of meat the size of a saddle-rock oyster, a mushroom, an onion, a in white satin, apparently sewed neatly ing the Saturday evening reception of ws.he,7as W1- said but that you were in reality a foreign Prince, with gold enough to sink a canal boat, and that if approached by royalty Betty," he, solemnly, the 11. lord and wife, artists who claim around the limb. There were bands of gold around her ankles; her ankle measured ten inches in circumference clove of a smell of cheese, oi garlic, a smell oi cneese, Chicasro as their home, and came here i a you wouia unoosom yourseir, ana, as gallon of red wine, and he is ready for the Americans say, 'come to put on canvas a few California scenes, an opera or theater. The jbrenchman "That isn't all he told, is it?" and have loitered a year, making at its smallest place her foot was two and three-quarter inches long, two inches broad in the middle, and one inch at tne toes over the white satin sketches in the canyons and mountains of Santa Barbara a Chinese, Ung Lee, can cook a dinner, but when he comes No he also informed me that you to eating one, why, bless your soul, an had wine in your cellar that was made Englishman can eat all around him. in the time of the first Crusade, and band or stocking she wore blue satin The cause of Paul de Cassagnac, that you would invite me in and fill me slippers, embroidered in silver.

The slippers came almost to a point at the toe. She could only walk by aid of her the well-known Bonapartist bravo, hav- so full of pound-cake and the juice of ing declined the duel offered him by the ancient grape that 1 would be com-Dr. Clemenceau is now known. The pelled to get into one of your most latter is so excellent a shot that, when luxurious beds and remain over night." which was on the bed beside her. cane ior Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, died at his residence in Baltimore County, on the of inflammation of the bowel3.

The ages of the Northern Methodist Bishops are given as follows Janes, G9 years Scott, 74 Simpson, C5 Ames, 70 Bowman, 60 Harris, 59 Foster, 59 Wiley, 51 Merrill, 50 Andrews, 50 Haven, 55 Peck, Go, Considerable excitement has been created in Louisiana by the withdrawal of the Ilev. T. Vaudray, of Baton Rouge, from the Roman Catholic Church, and his accession to the Protestant Episcopal Communion. The committee appointed by the late Advisory Council of Plymouth Church to select a commission for the investigation of charges or evidence in the case of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher have chosen as such commission Judge N.

Shipman, of Connecticut; Hon. A. Finch, of Wisconsin Judge S. B. Gook-ings, of Indiana; Hon.

Jonathan E. Sargent, of New Hampshire; Judge Lord sent me here to marry you." Betty's eyes fell upon the doorstep, and so did the plate. The demure maiden, however, ralhed instantly. The Lord's, will be done," she replied. The Deacon nudged his horse and trotted slowly away, and the maiden finished washing her dishes.

Betty's father was not friendly to the Deacon, and tried to break the engagement. He did not succeed, as appears from the "publishment" which, according to the custom of the times, was posted upon the church door. It was the production of the prospective bridegroom, and ran thus Reynolds Varvln and Betty Lee Do intend to marry, And though her dad op-po-sed be. They can no longer tarry." They were married, and lived in peace, and in a small stone house on the west side of "The Street," brought Then you are the Emperorof Brazil, Even with its aid, her walk was limp- tapped at the door and asked to see the pictures. He examined each picture carefully, and as there are over two hundred sketches on the walls, it took him several hours to go through them.

Before leaving he approached Mr. Ford, saying: "Melican man make pictures very fine; all same a3 out doors." He then drew attention to a little woodland scene, in which bowlders, moss, and ferns outlined a crystal pool, hedged in by sycamores and live oaks, giving a glimpse of purple mountains back of are you?" ing ana pamiuiiy siow. ine uoii-uauy formerly provoked by an officer, he declared before hand he would shoot him exactly in the diaphysis of the shin- "I am the simon-pure, bona tide I 4, v. I 1111 VI Lfr. IIMIIirilll.

it. II 11. bone, that is, at a place where shot Emperor of Brazil." wounds can be healed without amputa Well, Pedro, as you came along the tion. When his friends doubted so ex-; which was, of course, disproportionately large, looked any thing but handsome, according to my standard of aristocratically molded limbs and feet. fence there, did you notice a section of it that swings on hinges?" traordinary proficiency in handling the pistol, he gave proofs of it to them bv Why, of course 1 did.

lou mean looked like sticks of wood Her legs shooting at a number of staves at a long 1 the gate, I suppose. How do you expect them, and said he knew where that water was, and how much money was it worth Mr. Ford told him the price was SGOO. I take it," he replied, and whittled down to a point for a foot. distance, with a certain part of them 1 got into the yardr7 painted black, and afterward made "We thought perhaps that, as you good his point on the officer's shinbone.

were an Emperor, you spurned to walk Cassagnac, therefore, refuses to meet through an ordinary gate and crawled But she was evidently very vain of her deformity. Her baby, one year old, had feet five inches long, but he was a boy and entitled to masculine freedom of limb. It looked incongruous to see so Now, Pedro, old boy, the uoctor with hrearms, but tries to wnder the fence. can get through that let's see if you counted out the gold notes, to the sur-! prise of the artist and his friends, and carried away the picture under his arm. 1 In a few days he returned and wanted to learn to paint like Melican, and at my last visit to Mr.

Ford's studio this Chinese art student was painting in the corner at his easel, and Mr. Ford says he shows remarkable talent. And all provoke him into committing an insult which would enable him (Cassagnac) to have the choice of arms. With the gate again without knocking any of the up a large family of children, and in due course of events were gathered to their fathers. On a time-worn headstone in the Lyme cemetery may be seen the following inscription "This Deacon, aged eixty-eight, Is freeI on earth from May for a crown no longer wait, Lyme's Captain IteynoM Marvin." much gold, silver, satin and jewels on one poor little crippled woman, sitting in a little room back of a wash-house, Jos.

C. Knapp, of Iowa. The old custom of requiring six months' probation of a convert before his admission to membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church is just now the subject of much discussion. The Southern church has. abolished the practice, and gets along better without than with it.

It is thought by many to be a damper on religious fervor, and an unnecessary hindrance to religious foil the Bonapartist duellist is sure to kill his man. Ilaps and Misliaps. A little son of John Dutcher, of Bloomington, was killed by eating paint on the posts." He started slowly down the path, but stopped presently, and by the movement of his lips we judged that he was indulging in anathemas. We quietly picked up a brick and he moved on again, and was soon out of sight. That's the only way to deal with Centennial spelling-book Emperors.

Franklin (Ky.) Patriot and dressing and living in the bunk of a bed, set against the wall. But she seemed to be as much at ease, and have as much room in her curtained six feet by four, as American ladies find in a twenty-roomed house. She rose again, when we said good-by, and repeated "good-by" after us in parrot-like voice. We followed Sing Lee bak through the dark steaming wash-house, and saw, under the slightly disarranged curtains that surrounded the long ironing tables growth. The indications are toward t- potash.

Mrs. Henry Krout, of Indianapolis, was fatally burned from a kerosene lamp, which exploded in her hand. its speedy abolition ia the Northern the anti-coolie meeting on this coast will not be sufficient to eradicate or drive away from America the Chinese who have tasted of the fruits of knowledge held out by the hand of the "New World." As I am penning these lines I hear the strange metallic clack of Chinese voices in the street, and see going by my door six or seven Chinese, walking all in a row, one after another, talking During a recent thunder storm the dwelling of Ira Soper, in Flint, was struck by lightning. The lightning first struck an evergreen near the house, whence it ran alon the ground, looking like a huge ball of fire, to a brass conductor, which it followed to the top of the house, where it left the conductor and went crashing through wing of the Methodist Church. r.

i i A Motherless Chicken. Science and Industry. Airs, lirry iucvyunv auu iour cnu- i i ii i i i -Pennsylvania produced Luren "er? "urife" u- a ron of the 50,507,175 t6ns of coal mined in uf a th rnnf. The ball then passed through Assistant Postmaster Lewis, while walking in the yard at his premises yesterday afternoon, heard a little chicken calling, and, after looking every where Jen -lie nAT-nrnjI I hnv xxr Vt 1 at the top of their voices, apparently to into the sitting-room, striking a sewing in the front room, beds on the floor, and learned that the men who wash and iron here sleep and live under their ironing tables, on the floor. These Chinese understand economy of space, By the upsetting of a teakettle full hot water at Angre Village, me air, ior mey never iook arouuu iulo machine at which Mrs.

Soper was at of the countenance of the person wnom is a singular Tiott ara oHHrDccinfT Frankie, a dau-hter of W. H. evidently been hatched by the heat Galligan, was scalded to death. th(J te Utely having and not one inch of room goes to waste. work, clipping off a corner of the machine table and knocking Mrs.

Soper to the floor. From here it glanced to the top of a table across the room, on which the United States last year. Two hundred and fifty women will be graduated as telegraph operators this year from Cooper Institute, New York. The "Posto Atmospherique," for the dispatch of messages between Paris and Versailles, is icompleted. It is loi miles in length.

Each tuba is 13 feet After leaving Sing Lee's establish Luther H. Jroster, Laidington, been sufficiently cool enough to inter fere with the process. Some of Mr. 'was a box containing needles and other Lewis hens were accustomed to lay in fact that the Chinese never walk side by side, but always go single file, one after another. Another strange thing about them is that they are never ragged nor untidy looking.

I have never yet seen a Chinese wearing a dirty or torn garment, and their socks are always as white a3 snow, and their ment we wandered through the Chinese quarter of the town, and espied a grand Chinese flag flying from the Joss house. We drew near the crowd of men who surrounded the door, and asked what the flag was there for. One said, Big this box, but, one of them showing a disposition so set, he broke her up metals, which it knocked into a thousand fragments. It then passed through the floor' into the ground. The entire family were shocked, Mrs.

Soper, it is feared, fatally. by removing all the eggs except one, day for China boy;" another said, sandals trim and whole. I have heard which had been used as a nest egg, and covering the box with a board. This was done eight days ago, since which time there has not been any hens in the nest. The box was not exposed to the -W'S a SamG' many Eastern people here remark con-) ashmgton's 'Pursuing my cerning the neat feet of the Chinamen discovered a robber in hi3 house the other night, and in an attempt to capture him Foster was killed.

A dog ran into a garden in Water-ford, N. after being poisoned with arsenic, and saliva from its mouth flew on some lettuce. An entire family was mad almost fatally sick by eating the leaves. Mr. James H.

White, of Clay County, met with a very serious accident, the other day, by being mistaken for a turkey gobbler. He got himself up so as to appear as nearly as possible like a turkey, and went into the knobs inquiries iurtner, anotner informant and the freedom from rags and filth of The man who has "just one-word" to say is at large and equipped for the campaign. The editor knows him. This man must be killed this year. It of the Atlantic foreigners the poor States.

long, oh inches in diameter, two-fiths of an inch thick. They are laid 8 feet under ground, on a flooring of wood, and are pitched within and without. M. Leverrier proposes to the French Government to establish a system of warnings to colliery managers of probable falls of the barometer, the fact being now well established that the chance of explosions of fire-damp is seriously increased when the atmospheric pressure is lessened. Dr.

Poggioli advocates the use of electricity as an energetic sedative agent, not only in nervous affections but also in acute inflammations. In a paper sun, but stood under cover, and doubt less where the heat was tolerably uniform. The chicken is as sprightly as chicken ever was. Sacramento (Cal.) Union. will be a good way to signalize the Centennial year.

FUNKY NURSES. Following the walks through the said, All a same, Odd Fellows' celebration;" another, "All a same, Christmas." The Jos3 house is an old, two-story adobe "ouse, with porches extending from both doors. The upper porch is hung with rolored Chinese lanterns, trimmed with many gilt ornaments. We went through the gambling grounds of the hotel, I see a baby carriage, containing a blue-eyed, golden The girl students of chemistry, to call up one. A young man who hap-1 A Chinaman iu a mil, heavy beard pened to be passing near him mistook passed through Sacramento a few days the mimic ior an old turkey gobbler, ago, and there was much staring among haired little Saxon of the higher class, mineralogy, and botany at Harvard are Her ttle silver-mounted coach is pro- bv the professors fully pelled by two small Chinese boys of six equal to the men.

room of the first noor, where money was elinkirg and shrill voices shrieking and opened hre upon him with a pistol, 1 the Caucasians..